Every year, around the beginning of March, the threads of time thin and adventurers in Norrath are able to access portals back to The Age of Turmoil within EverQuest.

In reality, the event is to celebrate the release of EverQuest back in March 1999 and showcases a few popular or iconic events and NPCs from Norrath’s past.

This year sees a special 25th Anniversary of EverQuest. The full write up from Darkpaw can be found here

Look out for an in-game mail that will introduce you to the Chronoportal Phenomenon and where the various portals can be found.

Once an adventurer has stepped through the portal into the Time Between Times, they are faced with various Chronoportal NPCs who offer a couple of quests and a circle of various portals.

Instances

Stepping through a portal sees an adventurer transported to an age of the past to take on a foe of various levels.

Qeynos Hills sees the group mentored down to level 20 to take on Fippy Darkpaw.

Plains of Karana mentors the group to 30 to spawn Quillmane. Much to the annoyance of the Gnomish magicians that appear.

Qeynos Ruins is level 40 to take on Pyzjn the Necromancer. However be warned not to harm any bears or wolves in the zone. They are under the protection of the infamous Holly Windstalker.

Steamfont is a smaller instance at level 50 based on the Mines of Meldrath and includes the Minotaur Hero.

Nagafen’s Lair is at level 60 and can be a tricky zone to complete as many high level adventurers may find themselves killing the giant Magus Rokyl before he has a chance to complete his script.

Southern Desert of Ro is at level 70 and sees adventurers following various NPCs to camp check the Ancient Cyclops.

This instance is also used for the Public Quest – Camping the AC!

Ocean of Tears is a fairly straightforward level 80 instance. Once the Aqua Goblin Sacrifice is dead, Allizewsaur will appear on the island to claim their meal.

Guk is also a smaller instance at level 90 with a Ghoul Lord amongst the undead frogloks within.

New Collection

Within each portal will be a couple of purple ? shinies which will complete a new collection for 2024.

The Age of Turmoil Talismans can be found within the portals.

The new collection reward is a personal Chronoportal Phenomenon clock. This house item cannot be enlarged.

The Chronoportal Phenomenon is available on all EQ2 servers now until March 14th, 2024 at 11:59PM PDT.